It’s time for the “best of” types of posts as we near the end of 2023. These stories left behind pieces of themselves. These are the types of stories that I continue to ruminate on as the year ends, and I’m pained to let them go for stories coming in 2024.
Thank you to all of these authors who have gifted us a bit of themselves in each of these books.
- Ashley Jade’s The Choice
- Jewel E. Ann’s Before Us
- J.T. Geissinger’s Liars Like Us
- K.A. Tucker’s The Simple Wild (and the rest of that series)
- Lucy Score’s Things We Hide From the Light et al.
- Catherine Cowles’s Whispers of You (the series is FANTASTIC, but this is my fav book of the series)
- Kandi Steiner’s Meet Your Match (although I also loved book 2, Watch Your Mouth)
- Jewel E. Ann’s Because of Her (she earned two spots…for good reason)
- Meghan Quinn’s The Way I Hate Him (she released so many GREAT books this year, but this is my FAV of them all)
- Sierra Simone’s Salt Kiss (erotic and engaging…still not over it. Can’t wait for the next book)
- Helena Hunting’s Shattered Truths
- Devney Perry’s Coach (I also ADORED Sable Peak from her The Edens series, but Coach nudged Mateo and Vera’s story just a bit)
- Kristen Ashley’s Fighting the Pull (my fav River Rain story… Hale and Elsa are “chef’s kiss”)
- Karla Sorensen’s The Best Laid Plans (a sleeper favorite)
- Laney Hatcher’s Love Matched, a SmartyPants Romance story (a total surprise)
- Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing (this one held me in its thrall)
Professor Romance 